Experts

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

PhD in Geography, Head of the laboratory, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

MA, MGIMO University

Consultant at PIR-Center for Policy Studies

Head of the Scientific and Organizational Department at the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, Doctor of Engineering, Associate Professor

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

University of San-Francisco, Professor of International Relations

Ph.D. of Law, Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director, Institute for Global Governance Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Study (SIIS)

PhD in History, Senior Researcher in the RAS Institute of African Studies

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Area Studies of the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC member.

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Arctic and Northern economies under the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS),Associate Professor of Philosophy, Economics and Social Sciences Department of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

PhD in History, Head of IMEMO RAN Department, Professor of MGIMO University

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

PhD in History, Expert on Latin America expert

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey

Independent expert, specializes in EU, US and WTO affairs